top stories from our team superstorm sandy wreaked havoc across the northeastern usa leaving one hundred dead millions call them the country's most expensive presidential campaign to date in a tailspin. a powerful blast rocks the syrian capital leaving eleven people wounded while russia claims the west is the reigning except it's by backing the opposition . and peaceful post gadhafi libya as the country's two major cities are attacked a grenade strikes the security at tripoli and a car bombs detonated in benghazi. and truth under attack in greece journalists show solidarity with whistleblowers who are being silenced for trying to expose government problems.

and look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. while voters in florida lined up to cast their ballots in early voting those in new york and nine in up for fuel rations and blankets much of the big apple remains paralyzed and tens of thousands still without power heat or hot water nearly a week after superstorm sandy ripped through his arteries marina portnoy with the political fallout from the disaster. she was a storm the size of europe and it might be a game changer for america's upcoming us presidential election early voting was suspended as hurricane sandy ripped through the u.s. east coast monday causing eight and a half million homes and businesses to lose power with the death toll expected to surpass one hundred president barack obama canceled campaign appearances to handle

the superstorm the election will take care of itself next week. to make sure that. national polls show the commander in chief garnered excellent marks for his response. was the president. is my man. a vote for obama. a possibility yet the biggest praise of all came from a staunch romney supporter of cooperation for the president i did states has been outstanding the president has been all over this he deserves great credit if you think right now i give a damn about presidential politics that you don't know me looking to also score political points republican candidate mitt romney rebranded his victory rally in ohio into a relief a vent for sandy victims. to stop the police because. they

. are still being very close thank you but while the candidates attempt to feature sandy in their quest for votes her victims are too busy piecing their lives back together below thirty ninth street has become known as the dark side of manhattan hundreds of thousands have been surviving without electricity heat and hot water for more than five days the traffic lights do not work and most businesses have remained closed city officials say that power will be restored to the borough by election day the same promise has not been made to millions of voters living in other parts of new york and nearby states on staten island polling stations are no longer standing voting locations are removed in parts of new jersey massachusetts connecticut and pennsylvania that are still dark and damaged by the storm some experts say the last minute scrambling will undoubtedly leave countless americans disenfranchised from democracy on november sixth that's destroying the

legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is been wiped out in these cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting of new yorkers on election day. is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election i don't lection now defined by two men and sandy marina port ny r.t. new york. who gonna see who wins the election on tuesday washington will still have to find fifty billion dollars to cover the damage sandy did and it's not likely to come from cuts to the military the country's defense budget dwarfs that of any other nation and in these hard times observers say that money could be put to better use elsewhere there's no more important issue in america today and how much

we're spending on our military our military industrial complex that's where most of us tax dollars go i mean most americans know that this is wasteful spending here it creates a few jobs but there's so many more jobs that would be created if that spending that governmental spending was done on a whole bunch of other things like publicly utilities like a whole other range of areas so it's really destroying our economy in a lot of ways besides creating a lot on this sort of violence of them although it seems like the legacy of us being involved in always on this war's over these last years is going to be the same legacy that happened to a lot of other. empires that just they just spent themselves out of existence it happens to so in their own this is very wars that happened to the british you know it happened to a lot of other societies that these military industrial complex takes over nobody stops it and before you know it you know your whole country is like an overwhelming debt. contrary to what many disenchanted americans believe there is an alternative

to republican and democrat juhani we've been bring you extensive coverage of the third party candidates plans and policies and it continues on monday when we host their final debate live from washington. will to parties chief us politics a one way street. will do voices disrupt the power of power and. that is america changes. this election those guys monday november fifth on our team. and explosion in the syrian capital is wounded at least eleven people the blast took place near heavily guarded military and government buildings nobody's admitted the attack but al qaeda linked militant groups have been behind similar recent incidents meanwhile there's been another drive toward a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict as russia's foreign minister met with u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi dr mohammad the editor in chief of the syria tribunal spoke to a little earlier he says no resolution can solve the crisis while the west is

determined to oust president to say that i don't. see the west. should dictate the outcome of the struggle there will be no solution because all the choir members to out somebody who is powerful and who enjoys a lot of support from the syrian people and the syrian army and more importantly. insisting on having somebody. to sit on war this can lead to being anything good to the syrian people. trying to convince everybody that. the new law syria will be a syria for for everybody all its. components and one of these components is the supporters. militia men in libya's capital have set the supreme security committee headquarters on fire and looted it in front of the series of sporadic gun battles outside the building a middle east correspondent has more details. well a gun battle raging in south tripoli between two rival libyan militias around the

navy and a security cave course is building and from the information we have at least five people have been injured and part of that building has been destroyed now we are receiving reports that the whole area has been cordoned off that many residents in the area have rushed home and if there it came in themselves in fine inside of their homes and also arming themselves but why when i can say that security building is false and makes to the tripoli central hospital and some of the but it's from his gun battle his the hospital was also on sunday morning today was a car bomb explosion in front of a police station in the second largest city in libya of being ghazi now at least three police officers were wounded in that car explosion we're not hearing any reports as of actual people who have been killed we also know that part of the building particularly the entrance has been damaged that facade to that building has been talking just for you and they are in number of shattered windows now one of those comes up to more than

a thousand protesters take to the streets of benghazi they are calling for the eastern half of libya to be separated we're talking here about roughly half the territory of the country that holds more than three quarters of the oil reserves they want their own autonomy their one too many to the owner of things and they one thing ghazi to be the economic capital of the country all of this coming a little more than a year since the so-called revolution ousted the former you were by gadhafi in what . is the polarized nation of people polarizations in terms of what people want and gun battles on the streets we also know that for weeks now the city of funny when it has been and to see and from there we saw how when pictures of death and destruction. the editor of the pan african news watch told me under that the revolution has turned the club but from libya by several decades. historically during the period of the ottoman empire as well as a tie of colonialism the country was divided basically in the three different

regions of trees on the south tripoli in the last and of course or annika in the east and as a result of the independence movement in libya after nine hundred fifty one and of course after the seizure of power back of daffy and his cohorts in nine hundred sixty nine there was a concerted effort to bring about some type of national identity and cohesiveness inside of libya all of that has fallen apart over the last year and this is why we're having these type of sexual conflicts inside the country. coming up later this hour here knotty week elites could be vanishing off the radar and there's my bit of recall doesn't want to divulge anything uncomfortable so this is what you get when you search for anything to wiki leaks. to come kuwait's opposition gets the public had a response for ignoring the government's public gathering ban despite keeping the protest peaceful the story.

tucked in between the russian mainland japan and the suckling island is the island of minute on named after french seafarer who discovered it it is described as the pride of the sakhalin region we'll take a look what's in store for us here. until two thousand and four the island was part of the borders own and was completely restricted to busy days now this picture this place is open to tourists unique plants and animals are its top attraction. treaty has been exploring the deaths on the world seas for several decades but it's here at more your own island where he has finally. found what he'd been looking for . the water here is very clear the visibility is very good and the underwater world

here is extremely rich i've been to many diving locations across the planet including the island of bali but mine are on top of my list while some go to the sakhalin region to enjoy the sights others convert the island's nature's riches into a healthy dollar it is home to the biggest seafood processing factory in russia the tonight shock hundreds of thousands of tons of fish get caught in the nets too late to produce delicious salamon caviar almost unnecessary attribute of anything in russia the owner of the enterprise says a good fishing season can bring in more than one hundred million dollars net profit . at a large extent this is old to do what succulent offers environmentally they do not shop operates in the only and natural habitat and mild climate unique natural sights and delicious seafood succulent can offer a diverse holiday for those who are not afraid to travel ten thousand kilometers from europe the question is whether this distant land would ever be able to become

a major tourist destination. falls fifteen goats to kells. forty kilograms of rice one thousand flatbreads. but why is the bride in a bad mood. now to tell the group he's not the one. to rule it is a done deal. more news today. these are the images. from the

streets of canada. it's the weekly a greek arrested after publishing a list of the country's potential was acquitted on thursday but another is still in custody after threatening to reveal hell the books were cooked before. the trend in greece is to. is the greek government using bully tactics to cover up its own failings that's the question that took thousands of greek journalists to the streets of athens they can't alist for their outrage was the arrest of journalist cost us vaxevanis after

he revealed the names of more than two thousand wealthy and highly influential greeks accused of stashing illicit gains in swiss bank accounts. we published a list that other countries hired in their possession and our government was aware of for two years but did nothing in the absence of democracy is governed by corrupt characters who deceived the public claiming their handling tax evasion vaxevanis was set free after the judges decided that he did not have a case to answer however his story is sent a shockwave through an already fractious society we are in a period of political muscle and political crisis social crisis is obvious we have. an employment. thing one might say weimar republic kind of unemployment levels there is poverty. there are there is more

austerity coming but when it comes to reporting on government business one senior member of the greek union of journalists told me that it's getting close to cooperate all quit a mess some of. the frustrations have been imposed through any voice of the opposition and the media restricting journalists some two thousand five hundred media professionals technicians included have lost their job since last year. and those who attempt to stand up to authority and expose corruption are handcuffed to be arrested because he revealed the names obviously you can understand that people can cooperate with the state. but vaxevanis told me he won't keep silent i asked him if he was given another list of names but what would he do this is my job this is what journalists do they don't cover scandals they tell the truth and the elites have tried for two whole years to cover up major evidence that renders them in the

system entirely unreliable. the arrest of a journalist while trying to reveal wrongdoing has left some greeks failing that democratic rights road that here in the very birthplace of democracy peter all of a party. greece has his homework cut out his apparently got to introduce in the one hundred fifty changes to his financial policies to places international creditors and investment advisor patrick young thinks it's a futile effort. alice in wonderland that fabulous children's book had alice famously saying that sometimes she imagines six impossible things before breakfast well now we've got the troika of lenders that there are merging one hundred fifty eight impossible cuts before breakfast for the greek economy look the greeks are in this mess because ultimately they spend huge amounts of money we have terrible sympathy with the ordinary greeks on the street they are being left in a situation where they don't even have primary medical care in many cases but are we going to be able to see them manage to cut the economy or cut back in many

different ways of course not they'll be lucky to manage to get twenty of these cuts to stick let alone one hundred fifty it's larned alice in wonderland economics. spain and italy as prime minister this week denied that they're on the verge of asking for a bailout in the drain on monday the two leaders also criticize germany's plan for an e.u. body to police national budgets and punish those with large deficit is to be in spain in a severe recession record unemployment and see massive protests over spending cuts the spanish leader did admit though that his country may need a bailout sometime in the future economists you have van overtveldt believe that the cash would come at the cost of independence. it's one of two things you have to accept the fact that you will lose sovereignty. or you will have major problems in terms of the continuity of this monetary union so if you need money it's in the vital that those who lend you or the money starts interfering

with the policies so it may sound a little bit brutal or maybe a little bit undemocratic but that's the way things work if you really are in need of that much money for the long period of time it's been a vital that you give up some of your silver in it and as a member of to make this monetary union in a structural durable way every state's involved in this euro zone in this monetary union in europe will have. to accept this principal kuwait's ban on public gatherings was defied by protesters with reports of thousands of demonstrating against new voting rules it's a peaceful running police still resorted to stun grenades and smoke bombs geopolitical analysts eric draitser has told me that he thinks the country's government has no chance to maintain power unless it manages to repress the opposition that the government is terrified look at protest movement developing in saudi arabia one that's continued to go on in bahrain we see the same around the

arab world more generally and kuwait looks at itself or rather the government does and they see that they really stand no chance at maintaining our maintaining control of that country unless they're able to successfully suppress the end repress the opposition these are client states of the united states bahrain is the u.s. fifth fleet the navy kuwait as we all know the role that it played in both wars against iraq kuwait is very much dependent on saudi arabia and the united states and so all of this is part of a geo political calculus of u.s. germany u.s. does not want to see its control over the region slip away by something as piddling as the democratic aspirations of the people of the region. the u.s. is literally a raising we could leagues from memory with the national archives banning any surge that includes the whistle blowing organizations name civil rights groups joined by librarians on happy tools saying such blatant censorship is akin to george orwell's ministry of truth and laws kerry has been speaking to him he's the leader of the

u.k. pirate party he's little good in the band. mission of the library of congress is trying to preserve a collective body of knowledge the job of any line reached shortly should be to share that knowledge well it is frankly not surprising that such organizations that are under pressure to actually conform to these kind of classification law but essentially this is still censorship and censorship laws actually stepping on freedom of speech we often see that the united states and its very quick to criticize its states abroad stepping on premiums being. able to hold the same standards at home we can see how the wind with a certain critical whistle blowing. journey that man for democracy. stargazers now have the chance to spot

a manmade marvel in the night sky with their own eyes to see the space station with a massive telly when the ice age goes flying overhead and the details are online. and a prize for the pied piper who can read a small south african town where rats are on the rampage on our website we tell you what the bounty is for the terminator. some of russia's most radical political groups were out in force on sunday from diehard nationalists to outright fascists in dozens of cities tens of thousands joined marches chanting against immigration israel islam and all things foreign. was watching the crowds in moscow. the slogans and the messages that we've been hearing from the crowd behind me is that russia for russians only they want the flag of the russian order they're basically demanding jobs for your russians whatever that means and they're also pushing to repeal all laws part of the russian criminal law that actually punishes hate crimes motivated by religious hatred nationalists and

that make a trend so it's a message of national unity that probably doesn't sit well with a large chunk of the population now there are some reports about six thousand people in the crowd the permit us for about ten thousand people so we could see those numbers flooded of course a massive police presence here as well but so far the protest seems to be largely peaceful although we've also heard reports of about twenty five people wearing black clothes with the swastika shouting slogans they've been detained in another part of the city center here in moscow we have to keep in mind that this is the play of swastikas is of course banned in a russia as well as many european countries similar types of rallies have been taking place across russia and we've heard of another report of about ninety people detained in the urals city if you could to be in good part taking part of an on off the rise nationalist rally there now the police say that most of those people were teenagers again rather disturbing sight frankly we've seen

a lot of by nationalist clogs sort of by icons from the church which i guess is the symbol of some of the people here as well as some reports of people actually chanting long live anders breivik the of course the far right extremists was massacred seventy seven people in norway. welcoming all put here and all two weeks are in cases of brotherhood snatching you can stand that's off to the break. we speak to language. for programs and documentaries in arabic in school here. reporting from the world's hot spots seventy r.p.m. interviews intriguing stories are you. trying.

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i. am. i. am. what i can't touch. as this job is wedding draws to a close so remember brian bids her parents a tearful goodbye. chewin see them for over

a week after the ceremony the bride to be taken to a new husband's house and kept in a room for seven days the young wife will have to spend it all at sign with her husband so she can get to know him she's never even kissed him and braced him or held his hand before it was small not one of the guests can be certain that the groom has ever even proposed as arena or if he simply kidnapped. veneer a customer was also a bride once over there was no white dress old limousine at her wedding the nearer lived with her husband for only a week then she ran away to hang herself. everyone

was trying to persuade her that living together would be ok and this boy was also crying hard trying to talk green hearing into this marriage that she wanted to give it a try however it didn't work. the story shocked veneer as fellow students at the state university and. his liver had been kidnapped from their alleged countryside a dark alley way but on her way home from school in broad daylight a car stopped on the university campus three strangers drum grams of an era and took her to a nearby village one of the kidnappers and said no you will be my wife and as i knew she called me every day after she'd been kidnapped and that even though she was a strong girl she was crying all the time she kept.